Topic: DRUGS - on July 14, 2007 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Profile of famed LSD chemist Owsley
The San Francisco Chronicle managed to get an interview with the elusive Augustus Owsley Stanley III, a DIY chemist who produced legendary tabs of high quality LSD in the 1960s.
Owlsey's acid was even purer than the LSD made by Sandoz in Switzerland, the company that invented LSD and supplied it to the US Government as a tool of psychological warfare. Owsley's LSD was so pure that you could shake a beaker of it and it would glow -- its crystals were piezoluminescent.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 6, 2007 at 2:09:00 PM CEST
lego man rolls joint
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 6, 2007 at 2:08:00 PM CEST
Police arrest two Britons for drug smuggling
They were arrested on an Estepona industrial estate with a ton of cannabis hidden on a lorry load of toys and quad bikes
Two British nationals are reported to be in custody after they were caught with more than a ton of cannabis hidden amongst a lorry load of quad bikes and toys bound for the UK.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 2, 2007 at 4:59:00 PM CEST
Watching Mushrooms Grow.
Psilocybe cubensis “Burma” mushrooms fruiting on rye grain. Time lapse made using a computer and a Canon Powershot G3 camera.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 2, 2007 at 4:56:00 PM CEST
New Senegal record cocaine haul
Senegal has made its biggest seizure of cocaine - about 1.25 tons with a street value of $100m - just a few days after the previous record haul.
The drugs were found in the seaside resort of Nianing after an empty sailing boat with 1.2 metric tons was found nearby last week.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 2, 2007 at 4:54:00 PM CEST
'Unusually frisky' deer blow lid on marijuana plantation
Italian police busted two would-be marijuana cultivators after "unusually frisky" deer alerted the authorities as to the presence of their mountaintop dope plantation, UPI reports.
Locals in Trento began telling tales of the abnormally high-spirited animals, while forest rangers began to wonder why the normally shy and straight-laced cervine population was letting it all hang out by day and "making great leaps on the mountainside".
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 1, 2007 at 5:38:00 PM CEST
Summer of Love: 40 years later, Vermonters reflect on 1967
Fleeting images are sometimes stronger than fact-filled memories when Vermonters reminisce about the 1967 Summer of Love, a defining period in an era of remarkable change. For Jane Pincus of Roxbury, the most indelible recollection is of a young man standing on his head in a yoga position as the morning mist cloaked San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. That silent moment was in vivid contrast with kinetic Haight-Ashbury, the counterculture mecca where she lived for about three weeks in June with her filmmaker husband Ed and their toddler daughter Sami.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 30, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Bibliography of the Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions
The aim of this text is to serve as the most exhaustive survey possible of the current bibliography of the Brazilian ayahuasca religions – Santo Daime (including both of its two lines: Alto Santo and Cefluris), Barquinha, and the União do Vegetal – and their dissidents.3 The references are organized by language: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish. Inclusion criteria are as follows: for works in Portuguese, we have included all finished or inprogress graduate-level texts (Masters or Doctoral), whether or not they were published as scientific articles (in books, journals or on the Internet) or as books.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 30, 2007 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
Colombian finds cocaine in dentures
A sharp-eyed airport inspector foiled a plot to ship 20 pounds of cocaine to Panama when he discovered the drugs stuffed inside sets of false teeth.
The boxes of druggy dentures seized Friday at Bogota's El Dorado Airport contained about $300,000 worth of pure cocaine, Colombian police said in a statement.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 30, 2007 at 12:17:00 AM CEST
Drugs smuggled in a football
Guards at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre foiled a bizarre attempt to smuggle drugs in a football.
On Saturday night, a prisoner doing cleanup triggered an alarm when he got too close to a fence line at the jail, sending guards scurrying to the scene, where they grabbed the inmate and discovered a football filled with tobacco, said Solicitor General spokesman Christine Skjerven.
"This is the only time we know of that this has happened," she said. The inmate faces internal charges and a disciplinary hearing.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 30, 2007 at 12:12:00 AM CEST
Deserted cocaine boat in Senegal
The Senegalese authorities have found an empty sailing boat with 1.2 metric tons of cocaine on board, they say.
The boat was found near the Atlantic Ocean resort of Mbour, with the drugs divided into 50 bags of 24kg each - Senegal's biggest cocaine seizure.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2007 at 3:05:00 PM CEST
Incarcerex
Does your politician suffer from Chronic Re-Election Paranoia (CREEP)? Do you think our nation has an Incarcerex dependence? Tell your elected officials to give up the quick fix and create a new bottom line for the war on drugs.
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